A Companion to Crime Fiction

Introduction: What is Crime Fiction? (Charles J. Rzepka)

Part I: History, Criticism, Culture

1. From the Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes (Heather Worthington)

2. From Sherlock Holmes to the Present (Lee Horsley)

3. Criticism and Theory - (Heta Pyrhonen)

4. Crime and the Mass Media (Alain Silver and James Ursini)

5. Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon (Joel Black)

Part 2: Genre of a Thousand Faces

6. The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook - Lauren Gillingham

7. From Sensation to The Strand (Christopher Pittard)

8. The "Classical" Model of the Golden Age (Susan Rowland)

9. Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic (Alexander Moudrov)

10. The "Hard-Boiled" Genre (Andrew Pepper)

11. The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction (Carl Malmgren)

12. Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science (Sarah Dauncey)

13. Police Novel (Peter Messent)

14. Noir and the Psycho-Thriller (Philip Simpson)

15. True Crime (David Schmid)

16. Gangs and Mobs (Jonathan Munby)

17. Historical Crime and Detection (Ray B. Browne)

18. Crime and the Spy genre (David Seed)

19. Crime and the Gothic (Catherine Spooner)

20. Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths (Adrienne Gavin)

21. African-American Detection and Crime Fiction (Frankie Bailey)

22. Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) (Ed Christian)

23. Crime Writing in Other Languages (Sue Neale)

24. Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection (Patricia Merivale)

25. Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers (Christopher Routledge)

26. Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel (Arthur Fried)

27. Criminal Investigation on Film (Philippa Gates)

Part 3: Artists at Work Fiction:

28. William Godwin (1756-1836) - Philip Shaw

29. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - Maurice Lee

30. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) - Andrew Mangham

31. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - John Hodgson

32. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) - Leroy Panek

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Charles Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches and writes on British Romanticism, popular culture, and detective and crime fiction. His publications include The Self as Mind (1986), Sacramental Commodities (1995), Detective Fiction (2005), and Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010).

Lee Horsley is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she teaches two specialist crime courses. Her publications include Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005), and an expanded paperback edition of the 2001 publication The Noir Thriller (2009).

"Including a helpful introduction by Rzepka and conclusion by botheditors, the volume is a welcome addition to the impressive"Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture" series and toscholarship on crime and detective literature. Summing Up:Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty andprofessionals; general readers. " (Choice, 1July 2011)
"Whilst the editors admit that the collection is not entirelyrepresentative (there is no mention of Japanese manga, forinstance, or any consideration of hybrids of crime and sciencefiction), this companion offers an encyclopaedic account of crimefiction and its generic cross-fertilisations, and is an essentialguide for students and scholars alike." (Routledge ABES, 2011)

"This substantial and informative book covers a wide variety ofthemes within the genre and also a long time span from theeighteenth century to the present . . . It will give allaficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trustycompanion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (ReferenceReviews, 2011)

"It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment.It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to ourknowledge." (Languages & Literature, 2011)

"Several of the contributors praise books and authors long out ofprint. Hopefully, this companion will encourage readers andlibrarians to hunt them down and enjoy." (Book News, 1 March2011)

"In all, despite its shortcomings in terms of narratology and afew logical inconsistencies, Rzepka and Horsley s Companion toCrime Fiction offers a broad-ranging and well-argued introductionto this field of popular culture. Beginning students will certainlyprofit from its thematic diversity and wide historical reach."(Kult Online, 2011)

" A Companion to Crime Fiction goes into enormous detailbut is reasonably easy to read. It is not an academic-styledbook but a guide to how crime fiction has developed over time toaccommodate an increasingly demanding